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You also don't get as deep of sleep as what your body needs to get fully rested. Anyone here notice how much more vivid your dreams get if you stop drinking for about a month? Your body is trying to catch up on the REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep you had been missing out on.
These days I have some IPA's and craft beers once in a while on the weekends while watching the races. 2-3 at most. I'm better without the weeknight beers.
Around the three-week mark I went and did some pretty heavy moto (for me) at a sand track. First ride in about 5-6 months After a few laps I was literally wondering why my arms weren't pumping up and I could just keep riding.
I wasn't even thinking about the drinking but then it hit me that was the reason. I think the difference is I am heavily hydrated now. I had my best riding day in decades and had a helluva lot more fun and had a better attitude. It was one of those rides where every muscle is sore the next day, but you feel great.
Full disclosure: I actually had one beer (leftover in my fridge) late one Saturday night watching a race. One beer once in a great while is not a big deal for me, but I am done with regular drinking forever! (Wife is off my back, too).
If I can help anybody with tips, lemme know...if you tried to quit and couldn't, don't get down on yourself- just try again. It might take 50 times but you'll eventually get sick of the mental battle.
Alcohol, I never liked the taste.... Also hate hang overs and the inability to do anything athletic when drinking (it generally upsets my stomach)...
Herb... Stronger....makes me sleep like a baby, no hang overs.... Also helped me lose a bunch of weight while generally feeling much happier....
That is just for me.... Herb isn't for everyone...
The Shop
I'm at about a month (i had two random ones in there - one late night watching moto and another at dinner with a new boss, but stopped after each one. I feel like that is the drinker I wanted to be. I don't recommend that approach for a true clinical alcoholic.).
The benefits to quitting so far outweigh the negatives, it's ridiculous. I feel effing great in the mornings now, instead of taking 2-3 hours to start feeling right. I never quite realized how shitty those hangovers were really making me feel. I'm saving a ton of cash too, since I was buying premium high-alcohol stuff almost every day that was $10/six pack.
And i Kinda miss that being drunk makes doing nothing fun,
You can Sit in a garage doing nothing and its fun with alchohol.
But im glad i quit it was totally by choice. And now i feel like i think much more clearly even when i wasn't drinking i was in a cloud so to speak, and i have much more clarity and belief that i am capable of a lot more success. Wich is a great feeling.
I'm about 9 weeks sober now and am loving it. I'm not saying I'll quit it 100% forever , but I'm done with having beer in my fridge. About 2 weeks ago ( on a friday night ) after working about 10 hours , I swung by the store and bought two beer's. I drank 1.5 and poured the last half beer down the drain. It didn't taste as good as I remembered , and it made me tired as hell. I felt guilty for doing it , but I felt like having a couple. And again , it was about two weeks ago and I haven't had another one since , nor do I really want one. I dig the way I feel right now , and the few hours of getting buzzed , doesn't out weigh the other 22 hours of feeling great without it. I'm glad I nipped this problem in the bud before it really became a problem!
Pit Row
I managed to go riding a couple weeks ago and stupidly decided I deserved a cider, so I bought one and drank it. When I got home I walked in the door and she instantly smelled it (her nose is something else)-- bad, bad scene. I completely screwed up and destroyed all the good will and trust I had built by not drinking.
But I am committed once again and realized it's gotta be out of my life 100%. So I am focused on that, getting healthy and repairing the damage in my life. Honestly, all I want is to get my life stable enough so I can ride!
One realization is that just because I quit doesn't mean life is gonna be a breeze. But I can at least not make things worse...This thread has actually been huge in helping me stay committed.
I limit my beer intake (only coors light) to Friday night or Saturday these days, but even those days are numbered because I have an addictive personality like most of you have mentioned and it is always all or nothing to the point I wouldn't remember anything that happened that evening. My body just won't process the alcohol/sugar well anymore. Never got your traditional hangovers, I would just have a very elevated heart rate (like the thing was going to pop out of my chest) and the shakes, and couldn't concentrate for the life of me, just wanted to sleep.
I went at it hard for a good 10 years from 35-45, and what a waste it was looking back. My industry is VERY social interaction based, and it almost always revolves around meeting up for drinks after work, so that makes it difficult as well.
Only thing I have learned that is a constant is, if you are an alcoholic, there is no way to keep moving forward by doing anything more than taking sobriety day by day.
I drank Really Heavy all through my 20's and looking back
Now i feel like i was in a fog, now im focusing on trying to be successful and i feel so much more clear mentally.
And better physically
And setting goals wich even something as simple as that i wasnt doing.
Im in my early 40's so im kind of a late study.
The same thing works with Eating healthy to , the First 2 days is the hardest, and the whole first week is Hard
But your Cravings for the sweets and Junk food starts to go away and you stop thinking about it also.
I still eat sweets occasionally which are my kryptonite.
But its amazing how much less you crave it if you Eat a Keto for a full Week.
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